NGC 5560
| Galaxy NGC 5560 |
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|---|---|
| NGC 5560 with a 60 cm telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 20 m 04.5 s |
| declination | + 03 ° 59 ′ 33 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) b pec |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.6 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 117 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation |
NGC 5566 group , Virgo III group , Virgo supercluster , LGG 379 |
| Redshift | (+5767 ± 10) · 10 −6 |
| Radial velocity | (1729 ± 3) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(77 ± 5) · 10 6 ly (23.5 ± 1.6) Mpc |
| diameter | 85,000 ly |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 30, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5560 • UGC 9172 • PGC 51223 • CGCG 047-010 • MCG + 01-37-001 • IRAS 14175 + 0413 • 2MASX J14200449 + 0359335 • Arp part of 286 • GC 3845 • H II 579 • h 1778 • LDCE 1076 NED006 | |
NGC 5560 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SB (n) b pec in the constellation Virgo on the ecliptic . It is around 77 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 75,000 light years .
UV image of the galaxies NGC 5560 (top), NGC 5566 (middle) and NGC 5569 (bottom) taken by Galaxy Evolution Explorer
Together with the galaxies NGC 5566 and NGC 5569 , it forms a trio of gravitationally interacting galaxies with catalog no. Arp 286 . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy pair belongs to the class double galaxies with inflow and attraction .
The galaxy was discovered on April 30, 1786 together with NGC 5566 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .
Web links
- Atlas of the Universe, The Virgo III Group
- NGC 5566 and company
- Capella Observatory
- Spektrum.de : Amateur recordings [1]
- ARP ATLAS OF PECULIAR GALAXIES
- Seligman Arp
literature
- Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7